"We are starved of heroes," Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie wrote in her keynote address at the Nigerian Bar Association's annual conference last week.
"Our young people do not find people to look up to anymore."
The author, who's won the National Book Award for her novel The Orphan Master's Son, went on to describe Nigeria as "in disarray" and "a country where people romance idleness and laziness, believing they will make it in life through luck, lottery, betting and criminality."
"We need to go back to the seven heavenly virtues of chastity, temperance, charity, diligence, kindness, envy, and gluttony," Adichie continued.
"Without mincing words, we really lack heroes in practically all spheres of life.
Our incoming political leaders should embrace the virtues and cast away the vices from their life."
Among them: wealth without work, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion with pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, religion with sacrifice without justice, and politics without wrath, hatred, and jealousy.
"We live in a nation where people romance idleness and laziness, believing they will make it in life through luck, lottery, betting and criminality," Adi Read the Entire Article
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